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Texkimp Company History

Texkimp was founded in 1974 and is currently the only independent specialist creel designer and manufacturer in the world. Family owned and controlled, the company concentrates solely on the production of creels and related accessories for the handling, unwinding, tensioning and guiding of all types of yarns, tapes and fibres from package to process.

In contrast, most other textile machine manufacturers produce creels as secondary products, because they are needed to deliver yarns to their main products, such as texturising and twisting machines, weaving and warp knitting machines, section warpers and beaming machines, and pre-preg or pultrusion lines.

In 2007 Texkimp was reversed into Cygnet Group Limited and forms a key part of an expanding specialist engineering group with expertise in designing, developing, manufacturing and selling engineered products into niche global markets.


Management Team
Founders Colin and Janet Smith now take a non-executive role within the Company, whose current Managing Director is their son Matthew Kimpton-Smith. The day to day management of the company is performed by a team of four individuals led by the Managing Director, who each bring a wealth of skill, experience and diversity to the company.
Peter Banham – Sales Director
Tony Heap – Production Director
Colin Cliffe – General Manager

The Office Manager is Claire Murphy and the two Sales Managers are Chris Furphy and David Barker.

The engineering team is led by Andy Whitham (Mechanical) and Rob Pemberton (Electrical).

 

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Manufacturing
Texkimp make use of the latest production capabilities through a strong and long established network of suppliers, each with specialist expertise and focus on maintaining their position at the cutting edge of technology, allowing Texkimp to capitalise on the latest materials and manufacturing technicques. Thereby keeping prices competitive, along with machine design and material usage at the cutting edge.

Products are expertly finished, quality controlled and can be supplied in any state from un-assembled to fully assembled, depending on a customer’s requirements.

 

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Testing

Cutomers are actively encouraged to visit Texkimp's extensive showroom and test facility, bringing with them their own material for trials. This enables customers to focus on and experience the benefits of an unwinding solution that is tailored to their specific needs, and to evaluate the benefits when compared with alternative solutions.


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Design and Development

Texkimp provides tailor made solutions, to suit customers' unique technical requirements, available space and budget, for any unwinding application in whatever market.

Texkimp have a strong design team, combining the vital qualities of process and fibre handling experience with the latest design, development and manufacturing techniques. Our experienced team, using the latest CAD and 3D modelling software, combine well with our customers' process and engineering staff to arrive at fully optimised process solutions.

 

1974 Relationships
Texkimp's successful policy of developing close relationships with both their customers and other equipment manufacturers (OEMs), means that the programme of continual development is tailored around the specific needs of customers, enabling them to remain a few steps ahead of their competition.

Texkimp continues to develop strong relationships with OEMs, allowing them to benefit both commercially and technically, from the core strengths and experience that Texkimp have developed in unwinding fibres since 1974.

Texkimp has developed creeling technology into new and established areas and currently owns several patents and patent applications. Texkimp's specialised expertise and flexible structure, gives the company the ability to respond to customers' special requirements and also the capability to develop processes in line and often ahead of changing trends and requirements.

Texkimp are experts at providing cost effective solutions to customers' unwinding and tensioning problems.

 

UK Agencies
Texkimp UK Limited is the agent for Starlinger, Austria and their German subsidiary Georg Sahm.
Starlinger

Starlinger, long recognised as the world's leading supplier of the complete range of machinery for woven plastic sacks, continues to develop and refine successful concepts in flexible bulk packaging.
 
Georg Sahm are experts in the design and manufacture of take-up winders. Established in 1945 and based in Eschwege, Germany. Part of the Starlinger Group.

 

 

Exhibitions

JEC EXHIBITION, PARIS 2010 – RECORD VISITORS TO THE TEXKIMP ...
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STOP PRESS ...........

Seven tire cord creel projects to Europe and the Far ...
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Cygnis Integrated Solutions

Sister Company, Cygnis Integrated Solutions has been launched as a ...
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Cygnet Engineering Developments

Due to the continuing success of Texkimp we have launched ...
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